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The 100 Best Places to Eat and Drink in Shanghai

The best places to eat and drink in Shanghai, according to the experts: Michelin Guide, The 50, and Chinese Restaurant Awards have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Fu He Hui comes out on top.

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Ling Long and T'ang Court hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.

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  1. Three floors of earth-toned private dining rooms sit quietly behind the plane trees of the Former French Concession, feeling less like a restaurant than a place designed to lower your blood pressure. Fu He Hui is vegetarian fine dining with two Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, where set menus rotate quarterly and each course spotlights a single vegetable, fruit, or flower, paired with regional teas.


  2. Rank 2. Ling Long

    Contemporary Chinese

    White tablecloths, gloved service, crimson walls hung with avant-garde Chinese art, and a menu that gets progressively weirder as the night goes on. Ling Long is a fine dining restaurant on the Bund built around the concept of umami, with an eight-course set that traces a cross-China journey through regional terroirs. It holds a Michelin star and ranks on Asia's 50 Best list. The room is formal; the cooking is decidedly not.


  3. Rank 2. T'ang Court

    Cantonese

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    Address
    99 Ma Dang Lu, Huang Pu Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200021 · Shanghai
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Wednesday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5:30 PM–9 PM

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  4. The Cerea family's fine-dining room sits on the third floor above the Bund, all comfortable bourgeois elegance with a wine list to match. The kitchen hunts down local Chinese produce and treats it with Italian discipline, which sounds like a concept and eats like a conviction. Paccheri alla Vittorio travels well. Two Michelin stars and a spot in the top five of 50 Top Italy's global ranking confirm the room is playing at a serious altitude.


    Address
    3rd floor, N3 Building, 600 Zhongshan Road, East No.2, Shanghai, China · Shanghai
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Wednesday Noon–1:30 PM, 6 PM–9:30 PM

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    Address
    484 Jian Guo Xi Lu, Xu Hui Qu, Shang Hai Shi, China, 200031 · Shanghai
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 AM

    Wednesday 7 AM–10 AM, Noon–2 PM, 6 PM–8:30 PM

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  6. Art Deco screens divide the dining room into something that feels almost private, despite the scale, and the color palette leans deep enough that you half expect a saxophonist to materialize. This is the Peninsula's flagship Cantonese restaurant, holding a Michelin star, where the kitchen pairs classical technique with a quietly modern hand. The eight-seat chef's table is the room's open secret for anyone who knows to ask.


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  8. The mirrored ceiling doubles the snowy tablecloths, which tells you everything about the register here. Umberto Bombana's fine dining room, named after his favorite Fellini film, holds two Michelin stars and a Discovery nod from the World's 50 Best. Besuited waiters can discourse at length on Italian wine regions, and the aperitivo bar runs a negroni fortified with sweet wine and grapefruit bitters, so there's no reason to rush to your table anyway.


  9. An elegant white villa in Changning where dinner requires advance planning, because many dishes must be pre-ordered before you arrive. This is refined Chaoshan cooking, the kind built on poaching, steaming, and braising, with light, precise seafood and vegetarian preparations served across five private rooms. There is no walk-in crowd, no open dining room, and no sense of hurry. The restaurant holds two Michelin stars.


  10. Rank 9. Bao Li Xuan

    Cantonese

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  13. Rank 9. Ji Pin Court

    Cantonese

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  15. Rank 9. Tou Zao

    Cantonese

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  16. Rank 17. 102 House

    Cantonese

    Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the Huangpu River and the Pudong skyline, which is a lot of competition for what's on the plate. This is a formal Cantonese banquet restaurant on the Bund, small enough that a few private rooms account for most of the seating. The kitchen revives a style of multi-course celebratory cooking that had largely receded from view, with seasonal menus and a sweet-and-sour pork whose sauce rotates by season. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  17. Rank 18. Canton Table

    Cantonese

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  21. Rank 18. Fu 1015

    Shanghainese


  22. Rank 18. Fu 1039

    Shanghainese

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  24. Rank 18. Gastro Esthetics at DaDong

    Contemporary Chinese

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  27. Rank 18. Lao Zheng Xing

    Shanghainese

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  31. Floor 68 of the Shanghai Tower, with The Bund spread out below like a very expensive screensaver, is where the Burgundy institution Maison Lameloise set up its China outpost. It's a fine-dining French restaurant, the kind where the tablecloths mean business, turning classic Gallic technique toward ingredients that cross cultures with more grace than the concept deserves to sound on paper. The Shanghai kitchen holds a Michelin star.



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  33. Antlers on the white walls, no moose on the menu, a century-old Shanghai mansion doing its best impression of a gallery. This is a polished Jiangzhe restaurant where the chef's decades in Huaiyang cooking show in dishes built around technique rather than trend. The crispy white teat fish, a sea cucumber preparation that arrives in a crackling crust, is exactly the kind of thing that earns a Michelin star without needing to explain itself.


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  35. Rank 18. Narisawa

    Japanese

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  36. Rank 18. Obscura

    Chinese

    A private collection of Chinese antiques lines the walls of this low-lit, polished-wood dining room inside the Tangxiang Cultural Space on Xikang Road. Obscura holds a Michelin star for its tasting-menu cooking, which folds Sichuan tradition and forgotten regional techniques into something genuinely its own. The chef duo spent a year crossing China before opening, and the research shows on the plate without feeling like homework.


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  39. Rank 18. Seventh Son

    Cantonese

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  41. Rank 18. Sole

    Cantonese

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  42. Rank 18. Vivant by Johnny Pham

    Contemporary French


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  44. Rank 18. Yong Fu (Hongkou)

    Ningbo Zhejiang

    Ningbo cooking occupies a specific lane: intensely briny, fermented-forward, and proud of it. This upscale restaurant on the 56th floor of Raffles City The Bund leans into that tradition, anchoring the menu around wild seafood pulled from the East China Sea that morning. The room runs to aubergine walls, linen, and chandeliers, which creates a pleasant contrast with dishes built around deliberately pungent ingredients. It holds a Michelin star.


  45. Rank 18. Yong Fu (Huangpu)

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  46. Rank 18. Yue Hai Tang

    Cantonese

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  48. The brick-red interior is a deliberate nod to the Minnan courtyard houses of southern Fujian, set against floor-to-ceiling windows with the Shanghai skyline doing its thing beyond. This is Fujianese fine dining, a regional cuisine that prizes the clean, layered flavour of the ingredient itself over any attempt to dress it up. The tea pairings run from jasmine to aged pu-erh, and the kitchen holds a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.


  49. Rank 52. La Bourriche 133

    French Seafood

    Dim as the bottom of the East China Sea, this French seafood restaurant in Shanghai's Rockbund sits where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu, and the room feels like it knows that. Leather banquettes, travertine walls, and restrained plating frame a menu that shifts with whatever the ocean is offering that season. The chef came up at Odette in Singapore, and the technique shows. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list.



  50. Rank 53. Pony Up

    American Cocktail Bar

    Checkered tiles, timber walls, and green leather stools that look like a diner lost its passport and ended up in Huangpu. Pony Up is an all-day bar on Jinxian Road, open from early afternoon so the post-lunch crowd has somewhere respectable to be. The signature Cigar cocktail layers vermouth, absinthe, and a house smoke-infused spirit. Asia's 50 Best Bars has it on their Discovery list.


  51. Rank 53. Sober Company

    Modern Chinese Cocktail Bar

    A cocktail bar that doubles as a scavenger hunt: find Tipsy, the secret bar hidden somewhere in the building, and you've earned bragging rights for the evening. Sober Company runs three floors of drinking and eating, but Sober Society is the heart of it, where the team behind Speak Low works through a menu of cocktails built around Chinese ingredients. It has landed on Asia's 50 Best Bars list, which tracks.


  52. Rank 56. Speak Low

    Cocktail Bar

    You enter through a sliding bookshelf inside a cocktail equipment shop, which sets the tone nicely. This three-floor cocktail bar from Shingo Gokan has long since shed any real secrecy, but the ritual of getting in still earns its keep. The second floor is where the serious drinking happens; the top floor, rare whiskies and a members-only door. The crowd knows what it ordered before it sits down.



  53. Rank 58. Jade on 36

    Contemporary French


  54. Min Cai, the cooking of Fujian province, rarely gets the fine dining treatment, and Shanghai's 56th floor is an unlikely place to find it done seriously. Meet the Bund is a formal tasting restaurant where the chef reframes a regional tradition that tends to get overlooked in favor of flashier Chinese cuisines. The broth for the signature slow-cooked abalone dish takes several days to build, which tells you the kitchen's general attitude toward shortcuts.

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  55. Rank 60. 157 Shi Fang

    Shanghainese

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  57. Rank 60. Blossom

    Teochew

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  59. Rank 60. Cong's Kitchen

    Shanghainese

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  63. Rank 60. Hao Sheng

    Shanghainese

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  64. Rank 60. He Shan Mian Jia

    Shanghainese Noodle Shop

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  65. Rank 60. Ho Hung Kee

    Chinese Noodle Shop

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  66. Rank 60. Jingmei Wuxi Noodles (Yanping Road)

    Wuxi Jiangsu Noodle Shop

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  67. Rank 60. Lan Xin (Jinxian Road)

    Traditional Shanghainese

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  69. Rank 60. Lu Bo Lang

    Shanghainese

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  70. Rank 60. Mao Long

    Shanghainese

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  73. Rank 60. Ning Hai Shi Fu

    Ningbo Zhejiang Seafood

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  74. Rank 60. Ou Yue Zun Xian

    Wenzhou Zhejiang

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  75. Rank 60. Polux

    Bistro French

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  79. Rank 60. Tan

    Sichuan

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  81. Rank 60. The Taste of Huzhou

    Zhejiang Noodle Shop

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  85. Rank 60. YongFoo Élite

    Traditional Shanghainese


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  90. A cocktail bar on Nanchang Road where the design philosophy comes from Virgil Abloh's 3% rule: change an existing thing by just that much and it becomes something new. The shelves hold a select few bottles, the lighting is considered, and nothing extra survives the edit. The drinks menu is equally spare, which either feels like restraint or curation depending on your mood, but the room makes a strong argument for less.

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  91. Rank 95. Sky59 Rooftop Bar

    Cocktail Bar

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  92. Rank 95. Suzu Bar

    Japanese Cocktail Bar

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  93. Address
    80 Yong Kang Lu, Xu Hui Qu, China, 200031 · Shanghai
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Wednesday 8 AM–8 PM

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